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''Excélsior'' is a
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in
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. It is the second-oldest paper in the city after '' El Universal'', printing its first issue on March 18, 1917. The newspaper's headquarters are located at Avenida Bucareli 1 in Colonia Juárez, Mexico City, at the intersection between that avenue and
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, which is known as (the "Information Corner" or "News Corner" in Spanish), since the headquarters of ''El Universal'' are also within this area. The historic building of its headquarters is located between Paseo de la Reforma 18 and Avenida Bucareli 17, next to the modern building.


History

Originating from the weekly journal Revista de revistas, ''Excélsior'' was founded by Rafael Alducin and first published in
Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...
on March 18, 1917. Before choosing its current location, the headquarters were initially set at the corner between the streets of Colón and Rosales (this corner no longer exists, it was located around the area where the Torre del Caballito is today), and then they moved to Nuevo México street (today known as Artículo 123 street). All of these locations are within Cuauhtémoc borough, near the
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. The historic building of its current headquarters began construction in 1922 and concluded in December 1924. The building was designed, at the behest of Alducin, by Italian architect Silvio Contri, the construction was directed by Carlos Borgatt, and engineers Miguel Rebolledo and Manuel Marroquín y Rivera would also participate. The building has two distinct looking façades facing each avenue (Reforma and Bucareli), despite that both belong to a single building. In April 1924, Alducin died at the age of 35, and his family led the newspaper into difficult times. Ultimately, it was reconstituted as a worker-owned cooperative in 1932, with one-time accountant Gilberto Figueroa named general manager. His ability to manage finances and broker compromise within the newspaper contributed to a successful 30-year reign, in which the newspaper would become politically and economically stable. Beginning in 1968, the newspaper's editorial stance was of a relatively liberal bent, under the editorship of Julio Scherer García. After Scherer left the newspaper in 1976, the editorial stance became more overtly supportive of the
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(PRI) and the Mexican establishment in general, in a move spurred when President
Luis Echeverría Luis Echeverría Álvarez (; 17 January 1922 – 8 July 2022) was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Previously, ...
secretly incited a group of workers to take over the cooperative and install new leadership. The "Excélsior coup" instituted the new leadership that would be at the head of ''Excélsior'' until 2001. The outgoing editorial staff went on to found new publications, like '' Proceso'', '' Vuelta'' and '' Unomásuno''. In 2001, Regino Díaz Redondo, who had led the paper since 1976, was ousted, leaving in his wake a disorganized cooperative and an indebted newspaper. The end of the PRI's hold on Mexican politics brought with it a falling out of favor for the publication. In January 2006, the newspaper was sold to
Grupo Imagen Grupo Imagen S.A.B. de C.V., commonly known as Imagen, is a Mexican media conglomerate owned by Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. As of 2016, it is the third-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa and TV Azteca. History Grupo Imagen t ...
, the owners of
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and TV interests in Mexico City, headed by Olegario Vázquez Raña. The cooperative voted 591–7 to authorize the sale of ''Excélsior''. The sale led to the dissolution of the cooperative and the relaunch of the newspaper on March 18, 2006. The publication of its weekly journal Revista de revistas ended. Its main writers also contribute to Imagen radio and Cadena Tres;
Excélsior TV Excélsior TV is a Mexican FTA news channel owned by Grupo Imagen. It is named for Imagen's ''Excélsior'' newspaper and also uses the resources of Grupo Imagen's radio stations and its Imagen Televisión national network. History Excélsior TV ...
, a cable news channel also available over the air in Mexico City, launched in September 2013.


See also

* Communications in Mexico *
List of newspapers in Mexico Newspapers in Mexico include: Current newspapers : Defunct newspapers * ' * ''Alkartu (Mexico), Alkartu'', 1942-1947 * ''The American Star'' * ' * ' * ' * ' * ''El Demócrata Sinaloense'', 1919–1999 * ' * ''El Diario de Los Mochis'' * ...


References


Further reading

* Brewster, Claire. "The Student Movement of 1968 and the Mexican Press: The Cases of "Excélsior" and "Siempre"!" Bulletin of Latin American Research 21, no. 2 (2002): 171–90.


External links

*
''Excélsior''
at the Mondo Times
English translations of ''Excélsior'' articles available at nonprofit WorldMeets.US
Newspapers published in Mexico City Newspapers established in 1917 Spanish-language websites Grupo Imagen 1917 establishments in Mexico {{mexico-newspaper-stub